Hi friends, very early learner here.
I’m doing a project about baking, and I’m using websites like cookpad for sentence structures and verbs.
In one recipe the poster uses にし, and I’m assuming these are particles but I’m not sure what its about (and google search doesn’t help me, they just translate it into ‘west’)
e.g.
ボウルにバターと砂糖を入れなめらか **にし** 卵黄を加えよく混ぜる。
and
10〜12等分 **にし** 手で丸めてペタンとつぶし天板に並べる。
Is this particle に + ます form する? Something else entirely? I don’t know what I don’t know, so it can be frustrating.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
Edit to say thanks to everyone for the explanations 🙂
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>Is this particle に + ます form する?
At a glance, that’s how I read it. You can use the ます stem to link clauses, so with commas separating things for clarity, you might read:
>ボウルにバターと砂糖を入れ なめらか にし, 卵黄を加えよく混ぜる。
にして. Same idea with とし.
In this context, にし expresses making something to another state and then doing the next thing after that.
> ボウルにバターと砂糖を入れなめらか にし 卵黄を加えよく混ぜる。
Put butter and sugar into a bowl and make it TO a smooth state, AND THEN add an egg yolk to there and mix it enough.
> 10〜12等分 にし 手で丸めてペタンとつぶし天板に並べる。
Divide it INTO 10 to 12 pieces, AND THEN ball them up, squash them respectively like pressing, and arrange them onto a cooking plate.
Regarding にし, に corresponds to “TO” or “INTO” and し corresponds to “AND THEN” above.
[Ren’youchuushikei](https://www.imabi.net/renyouchuushikei.htm) (連用中止形)
> Is this particle に + ます form する?
Yes. You can add て to it and it won’t change the meaning, you may be more familiar with にして. It’s just the connective form of にする. Whether to add て or not is a matter of style, they’re the same thing.